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HEALTH CERTIFICATION

Definition

An official statement declaring the health/disease status of a group of organisms (e.g. aquaculture stock). Such a statement does not necessarily mean that a shipment is disease-free, but that the target diseases for which the samples have been analyed have not been detected; they might be present below detection level, and therefore a residual risk of disease transfer exists, depending on sample size, size of the consignment and sensitivity of the method used.